if she wins, bruner would join the 15-member board and have a voice in the curriculum stdards in texas. >> in texas, we have 5 million kids in our public schools, and if we teach them things that are not sound educational philosophies or facts, we're setting them up for failure. >> reporter: the issue is greater than just texas. due to the state's outside purchasing power with publishers, those same text books could be sold in other states. >> some of the things that she says is fright thing to think of somebody having a microphone and the status of an elected official in texas. >> reporter: thomas, as a moderate republican, he opposes bruner's candidacy. >> she has views that are not necessarily mainstream. most notably, she believes that our current president was once a male prostitute to pay for his drug hasn't. >> she did not respond to the request for an interview, but her friend said that bruner is in touch with the texas conservative voters. >> she knows what the parents the and she'll be able to speak to the values and concerns. >> she said that school shootings in the united s

. >> the first person i met in my band was ronald bruner.y and back then i was a drummer. i got a drum set for my third birthday party and we had a big drum battle that supposedly -- i don't know who won, but -- >> rose: but you grew up in ingle wood? >> south central l.a. i moved to englewood when i was eight years old but i always lived in south central los angeles. >> rose: at that time you were surround bid the gang culture in englewood, what we think about in compton. >> yeah, definitely gang culture, gangs, drugs, a lot of things. but also a lot of culture. culture as far as jazz, poetry. if you didn't fall into that pressure of the negative, there was a light attend of the tunnel that you can go towards. >> rose: you named you band the next step. >> yeah. >> rose: why did you do that? well, you know, as a musician, it's a gift and a curse to be talented because what happens is when you're young you get plucked away and pulled. my friends and i grew up in high school really dreaming to do what we're doing now which is playing each othe

fox's porsche bruner has the story. >> over all how the fight started, what it started over, just simplyiculous because it was a set up. >> reporter: county sheriff eric levitt was disgusted to see the cell phone video recorded march 2nd in inside a salem high school classroom for several reasons. >> he says bryant alleged actions are most disturbing. she's the 18-year-old girl charged with simple battery after this video appears to show her hitting a student with no provocation pulling the student out of her seat then assaulting her on the ground. >>> here you have a girl perhaps that may have been minding her own business and all of a sudden it looks from the video she perhaps was tacked from behind and the fight result the d she deserve it? it may be just a school fight. but if you look at the video and how that fight could have been very violent, it only takes one hit to not someone out. >> reporter: while the sheriff says he was glad to see some female students desperately trying to break up the fight he was frustrated more boys didn't try to intervene and says he was even more disa

former school teacher, mary lou bruner has raised eyebrows across the nation for accusing president obamaa facebook post last year. she received 48% of the vote in a three-way gop primary for the board seat. and is expected to win the runoff come may. >>> another local race in texas may mean the ousting of a state lawmaker who made some visitors to her office renounce terrorism. representative molly white instructed her staff to require visitors to announce their allegiance to america. she refused to apologize after her actions garnered national attention. this week, representative white lost her primary by 118 votes. she posted on facebook, she will pursue a recount. >>> bernie sanders may not be able to overcome hillary clinton's delegate lead, but has strong numbers when it comes to social media. sanders has 30,000-plus more ins to graham follow was coming out after a peting when he saw the simpson case and referred to it as a quote spectacle. a live look at new orleans where they are casting their votes. which issues will decide who wins that contest? we'll take you live to new orlean

and carol bruner is a ted cruz supporter. tara, i want to start with you.interested in talking to you. some accusations of playground politics have been leveled. whether do you think of donald trump's explanation for why he attacked heidi cruz. well he started it. what do you think of that? >> it is very playground politics. and i'm ready for these guys to bring it off the playground and get real with each other. leave melania out of it. leave miss heidi out of it. to be honest alisyn i'm just sick of it. quick pooping in each other's sand boxes. let's keep this ming moving. but for his explanation of he started it. i know if someone throws verbal jabs at me in the heat of the moment i have come back and said some things that i probably shouldn't have said. i think we're all human. we all do that. if he apologizes, that's great. if he feels justified in what he says, that's great too. >> carol, should we hold our presidential candidates to a different standard than what the rest of us adhere to or what our children adhere to? >> i think we should. i think t